Thank you for raising this really important consideration.

I have internal battles about my own thoughts on this topic.

Whilst now I can confidently say what I would not want to live with or like… what happens if I changed my mind on that journey? 😕😕 #ItsImportantToTalk

Visited a fab care home today whose collective pride & joy is their greenhouse! 🏡

Growing in there were herbs, tomato’s & lettuces to use in meals 🍅🥬🪴

Around the garden; bird feeders, fence paint, sweeping brush - life goes on in care homes! 🪣🧹🐦

#dementia

“The physical & mental health benefits of touch” Graham Firth

A fab read 👀📖

Particularly pertinent as I spent an hour today, hand in hand with a woman living with #dementia who only had sounds & movement at her disposal. Our convo didn’t need words

connectingwithintensiveinteraction.com/2024/04/29/the…

My two best friends & PA’s ❤️ Super proud of your strength & determination Annalessia France ❤️

This quote is everything ❤️

Me too 🥰

I popped this infographic up Integrated Admiral Nurse Service -Cornwall 's care & share event yesterday

What a lovely day of #connection 💓

Oxytocin can improve social aspects of cognition
meeting needs
for #love
attachment
trust
allowing us to connect within ourselves
with others
#dementia #MeetMeWhereIAm

The importance of touch in #dementia care. Receiving #hugs and holding hands are vital when we become more sensory beings. Here Nicolle Mitchell🏳️‍🌈 explains how the #wellbeing hormone #oxytocin contributes to the feelings of warmth, belonging and #connection . Meaningful Care Matters

My bible ❤️

And this is why I love Namaste Care International Ltd ❤️

#WordsMeanSoLittle

I’m indebted to the work of the late Tom Kitwood & Kathleen Bredin which underpins my approach to #PLWD . Learning to step away from ‘our customary patterns of over-busyness… & extreme talkativity, into a way of being in which emotion & feeling are given a much larger place’ T.K

NHS England has announced Dr Jeremy Isaacs is the new National Clinical Director for Dementia, succeeding Professor Alistair Burns CBE who took up the role in 2010.
Congratulations to Dr Isaacs, we look forward to working together!

journalofdementiacare.co.uk/dr-jeremy-isaa…

The amount of messages I get like this.

I really don’t mind one bit, I’ll always help where I can, but how on earth are we still in a position where people living with #dementia in there lives do not have ready & clear access to support from the get go & throughout the journey?

Really interesting! 👃🏻

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has announced that it is beginning the development of a dementia strategy. 

Read more here:
journalofdementiacare.co.uk/cross-sector-d…
CQCProf

Could this be the perfect job?!

Yesterday I supported a resident to go to Asda for some new things! 💚

He left with a steak & ale pie, cauliflower cheese, goose fat roasties & a trophy shaped mug!

All of which he enjoyed for his tea! 🥧🥔🏆

Life goes on with #dementia & in care homes 🤷🏼‍♀️🏡 Community Champion

Natasha Wilson - Dementia Care Manager Too right Natasha! Infantilising and also diminishes the person’s swallow, which is already at risk in dementia 😡 #BanBeakers I genuinely have no idea who the things are any good for!